Remove the running kernel image (not recommended) [No]? No
dpkg: error processing kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
Reading Package Lists... Done             
Building Dependency Tree       
Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done  
server1:/etc/apt# ls /boot/vmlinuz
ls: /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directory